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On June 13th, Side Street Projects is embarking on an exciting 6,500 mile cross-country road trip from Pasadena, to Boston, and back to retrieve The Armadillo — an actual FEMA trailer deployed after
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On June 13th, Side Street Projects is embarking on an exciting 6,500 mile cross-country road trip from Pasadena, to Boston, and back to retrieve The Armadillo — an actual FEMA trailer deployed after Hurricane Katrina that MIT students and faculty transformed into a vertical (and mobile) community garden. MIT awarded The Armadillo to Side Street Projects after a nation-wide search. A companion for our renowned Woodworking Buses, The Armadillo is the newest addition to our fleet of mobile art education classrooms for kids in LA County.

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‣ Founded in 1992, Side Street Projects is
a completely-mobile, artist-run nonprofit
organization based in Pasadena, CA.
‣ We teach artists of all ages how to roll
up their sleeves and do things themselves.
‣ Education programs encourage self-
reliance and creative problem solving in
a contemporary art context.
‣ The only sustainable, mobile, urban
community art center in the USA.

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Mobile Headquarters
Strength Through Mobility
‣ Affordable office space is a serious problem for 80%
of America's nonprofits. We became a completely
mobile, self-sustaining organization in 2008.
‣ Off-the-Grid: vintage trailer offices on a vacant lot,
100% solar powered, with satellite Internet uplink.
‣ We plug into spaces no other organization could
conceivably occupy, ironically achieving stability
through mobility.
‣ In partnership with the City of Pasadena, we will
remain permanently mobile and continue to transform
vacant lots into thriving community art centers.
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Mobile Art Education
The Alternate Routes Program
‣ Wood shops on school buses where kids
learn about art, design, and engineering
using only hand tools, raw materials,
and their imagination.
‣ Integrates art, math & science in a
100% hands-on environment.
‣ More than 10,000 children in LA County
have thrived in the program since 1997.
‣ Expanding Alternate Routes fleet with
new mobile classrooms for different types
of art media. The Armadillo is the first
such vehicle.
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